On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Trevor Sky Garside wrote:
> So, a HUP is not costly at all? In other words, if I hup the service every
> 5 minutes or so, will it hurt performance terribly?
A HUP causes the daemon to shut down and restart. This involves
re-executing the binary. A restart also causes the daemon to reset its
counts of executing queue ruuners and reception processes, which is not
a good idea.
As suggested by another poster, keeping volatile data in a separate file
is the way to go.
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